Station 15- Maritime Square(Tsing Yi)

Hey! Ladies & Gentlemen! It’s me again! Today I am going to take you into another shopping paradise! It is Maritime Square in Tsing Yi!

Maritime Square is the first shopping mall in Hong Kong adopting ocean and navigation as the design there. Occupying a total of 500,000 square feet, the mall houses a superior range of shops and restaurants such as Clinique, Bank, Bossini. It’s very convenience for the local people and the tourist.

Maritime Square is right at MTR Tsing Yi Station. And it’s near the Hong Kong Airport. It can be arrived to airport within 15mins via Airport Express Line and MTR Tung Chung Line. It is not only just one station away from the Hong Kong Airport but also adjacent to the hottest tourist spots in Lantau Island including Ngong Ping 360.

Also, It have some promotions as the below poster! Pls have a look!

And it provide some customer services such as Locker Hire for the tourists, if u are shopping with many packages before you left, you can put the stuffs to your locker. Any details, you can contact to the customer service counter located at the ground floor. Moreover, there are a Chinses House Tea which located at the groung floor, the special thing of the tea house is its build up by a SHIP! so it is a  specially tea house and you can take a photo as you want!


Hope all of you will be enjoy shopping in Maritime Square!

Have a brief look in Maritime Square*

By Didi*

Station 14: Where to shop hand made goods in Hong Kong?

Hello, fellowers! As we all know, Hong Kong is not only known for the worldwide famous brand product, but also the hand made goods. If you are reaching for some, here is what you need to know :)

Strolling along the streets on Hong Kong Island, pedestrians hardly notice that in the quiet corners are the tiny workplaces of two distinguished craftsmen, striving for a living in the fast-changing city.
Crammed into a tiny 50-square-foot green booths on Hollywood Road in Sheung Wan, a middle-aged woman is carefully stitching and hammering a leather shoe with her skilful hands.

Only a few streets away from the shoemaker, on Peel Street, Central, is the tiny umbrella workshop of Ho Hung-hei. Every morning Ho, 81, travels to the workshop from his home in Kowloon.

 

 

 

 

“Repairing umbrellas is my greatest interest in life,” says Ho, who has been operating the shop since 1974, earning a living to bring up his nine sons and daughters.

The craftsman has designed, stitched and fixed more umbrellas than he could ever count. “This old shop is where my precious memories are stored,” Ho says as he recalls the most unforgettable experience in his life -- breaking the Guinness World Record in 1994 by making the world’s most expensive umbrella and selling it to an Englishman for £167 (HK2,088).

“The Englishman could find no one to work out his design and he finally sent me a box of ox skin from England for making the umbrella,” he says proudly.

So anymore hand made goods you need? Good luck with exploring it in Hong Kong.

 

By Cindy